Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Cloudy with a Chance of Meat Balls

Released Year: 2009
Directed by Phil Lord & Chris Miller

Vocal by:
Bill Hader as Flint Lockwood
Anna Faris as Sam Sparks
James Caan as Tim Lockwood
Bruce Campbell as Mayor Shelbourne
Andy Samberg as Brent "Baby" McHale
Story:
Flint Lockwood is fancy about science since he's a kid in a small town calls Swallow Falls, located on a tiny island hidden under the "A" in "Atlantic" on the world map. Swallow Falls faced the economic downturn after the sardine market collapses after everyone realize sardines are gross.

By using his imagination & scientific knowledge, Flint has invented a "diamond-hard-spray-on-shoe" when he's a small. But he never managed to take off the shoe after that. Not giving up, Flint created others such as "the flying rat" & "the flying car". But all this hit a failure, he was very down and depressed but was supported by his mother.

Few years later, Flint came out with a machine which will mutate the water to become food. Too bad, he needs stronger electric power to function it. So during an opening by the mayor Shelbourne and his son Brent for the town, Flint stole the electric and cause a big mess on the opening. Every citizen blame Flint for this, even the weather reporter Sam's new career was spoiled. But out of sudden, the machine which has flew up to the sky work and drop out burger which everybody enjoys it very much.

As days go by, Flint managed to earn his fame and Mayor wanted him to provide 3 meals for the citizen in Swallow Falls everyday till the re-opening of the town. Flint took up the offer and will be granted to be the person who cut the ribbon for the opening. In the meanwhile, Flint's father, Tim prefer Flint to take over his sardine business instead. Flint has fall in love with Sam and build a castle with jello for her. On the opening day, tourist from over the world came and the food order was spaghetti and meat balls.

Sam is good in weather analyzing and discover a weird weather will come soon. Flint refuse to listen to Sam. Finally the machine in the air mutate itself from the weird weather, and started to attacked the earth by spilling out oversize food. Flint wanted to stop the machine but was stop by the greedy mayor. Out of ideas, they used Flint old invention "flying car" to fly to the machine and try to stop it. In the machine, Brent and Sam fought with the mutant chicken while Flint drop into the center of the machine. Brent forced to bring Sam away as the machine is going to explode. Flint in the meanwhile managed to stop the machine after Tim email him the correct program from earth. But the program didn't work, Flint used the spray-on-shoe spray to glue up the exit of the food processor.

Finally everything is back to normal and the mayor was arrested. Flint and Tim open a new business with their spray-on-shoes formula.
L² Scored: 5.5/10

L² Comment:
I would say this is not a cartoon for children but adults instead. Its kinda meaningful and nice to watch at... Overall you kinda predicted of how's the story will goes. Since it came from the storybook of children, i can just say children nowadays think more than me when i was small.

A production of the sony pictures animation, heard that they will produce a squeal for it, hope it will be better :)

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